Canonical Classics ← 第四十五回
第四十五回
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At the Abbey of the Three Pure Ones the Great Sage leaves his name; in the Kingdom of Cart-Slow the Monkey King displays his magic.

二指三指
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原文 Original text 繁體 Traditional Reader's edition

二指三指 Second and Third

gùnzièrzhǐjiùyàoyún。」tuīyúntónglángjūndào:「jiùyúnjiùyún。」「gùnzisānzhǐjiùyàoléimíngdiànzhuó。」léigōngdiàndào:「fèngchéngfèngchéng。」gùnzièrzhǐjiùyàoyún。」tuīyúntónglángjūndào:「jiùyúnjiùyún。」「gùnzisānzhǐjiùyàoléimíngdiànzhuó。」léigōngdiàndào:「fèngchéngfèngchéng。」


逐句解 Line by line

gùnzièrzhǐjiùyàoyún。」 gùnzièrzhǐjiùyàoyún。」

“At the cudgel's second point, then the cloud must spread.”

第二指 "the second pointing." 棍子: = zi. 佈雲 "to spread cloud."

tuīyúntónglángjūndào:「jiùyúnjiùyún。」 tuīyúntónglángjūndào:「jiùyúnjiùyún。」

The Cloud-Pushing Lad and the Mist-Spreading Lord said, “We'll spread cloud, we'll spread cloud.”

那推雲童子: = ; 童子: = , a boy attendant. They say it twice, which is how everyone answers him tonight.

gùnzisānzhǐjiùyàoléimíngdiànzhuó。」 gùnzisānzhǐjiùyàoléimíngdiànzhuó。」

“At the cudgel's third point, then the thunder must peal and the lightning flash.”

棍子: = zi. 雷鳴電灼 "thunder peals, lightning flashes."

léigōngdiàndào:「fèngchéngfèngchéng。」 léigōngdiàndào:「fèngchéngfèngchéng。」

The Thunder Lord and the Lightning Mother said, “At your service, at your service.”

那雷公: = . 奉承 (fèng chéng) "at your bidding, we comply" -- the word later drifts toward flattery, and there is already a little of that in it here.


總評 Commentary

The drill goes on in tidy parallel: second point, cloud; third point, thunder and lightning. Each instruction is answered twice over by deities falling over themselves to agree.

The numbering is doing deliberate work. 第二指, 第三指 -- Wukong is rebuilding the immortal's own five-signal code, item for item, with a stick where the tablet was. He is not inventing a rival system; he has taken this one over.